Category Archives: Tasting Notes

AOC – Margaux Second wine of Chateau d’Angludet Grape Cabernet Sauvignon , Merlot

VDT – Castilla y LeonGrape100% Tempranillo Ratings & Awards90 points by GUIA PENIN87 points by WINE ENTHUSIAST Tasting Notes The Grape used are highly concentrated, and give a very rich wine. To be appreciated now for its fruity character , or laid down for two or three years for greater complexity. -by Official Website

DOC – DouroGrape 30% Touriga Franca 30% Tinta Roriz 40% Touriga Nacional Rating & Awards90 points "Best Buy" by WINE ENTHUSIAST88 points – Wine SpectatorTasting Notes Colour : Beautiful red robe with purplish glints.Nose: uncomplicated, clean and fresh with red berry and spices aromas.Mouth: The wine is soft on the palate with rich rounded flavours… Read More »

Grape ShirazRatings*Penfolds – Icon & Luxury RangeExceptional – by Langton’s Classification Australian Wine  Robert Parker 90 Jeremy Oliver 87Wine Spectator 94Tasting Notes Colour : Medium-full red/purple colour Nose : It is a beautifully weighted and concentrated wine combining very intense, ripe plummy aromas with smoky vanillin oak. Palate : Already, the wine is supremely complex… Read More »

Grape 100% Pinot Gris Ratings & Awards James Halliday 89 The Penguin Good Australian Wine Guide 2009 92 Tasting Notes Fewer bunches resulted in higher grape sugars in 2010.While oxidative juice handling and fermentation of the pressings in old oak have helped build texture in the wine, the typical gris aromas of spice and pot-pourri… Read More »

AOC – PaulliacGrand Cru Classes – 1emeRatings Robert Parker 96+Wine Spectator 93Tasting Notes Perhaps the most beautiful packaging ever on a Bordeaux bottle, Baroness Philippine de Rothschild literally produced a work of art in the gold-engraved bottle of 2000 Mouton Rothschild. Of course, one can?ˉt drink the glass, but this is a top-flight Mouton Rothschild,… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 92 Tasting Notes The backward 1996 Haut-Brion was bottled in July, 1998. Even administrator Jean Delmas was surprised by how closed it was when I tasted it in January. Only 60% of the crop was utilized in the final blend, which was 50% Merlot, 39% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 11% Cabernet Franc.… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 93 Tasting Notes One can??t say enough about the efforts Bruno Borie is pouring into this wonderful estate that I have often called the ????Lafite Rothschild of St.-Julien.?? An undeniable success, the 2004 Ducru boasts sweet aromas of creme de cassis, spring flowers, pain grille, licorice, and road tar. This pure,… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 88 Tasting Notes Bottled in April, 2000, this elegant, stylish, graceful wine is an attractive, dark ruby/purple-colored effort with subtle notes of sweet oak, licorice, herbs, and black fruits. While not massive, it is medium-bodied and ripe, with sweet tannin. Forty-eight percent of the production was utilized in this blend of… Read More »

Ratings By Robert Parker 90 Tasting Notes One of the more modern-styled wines from the appellation of Margaux, always with a prominent overlay of toasty new oak, espresso roast, and sweet black fruits, this wine seems more restrained and has backed off its concentration with the 2006. It is a mid-weight, elegant wine with notes… Read More »